Struggling with standing access across your AWS environment? This episode of the Five minutes to zero standing access series shows how to identify and safely remove unused IAM roles, over-provisioned policies, and dormant credentials—without disrupting production.
See how P0 maps identity-to-permission relationships in real time, flags unused privileges, and helps you enforce least privilege at scale.
Most AWS environments are quietly accumulating risk.
Permissions are over-provisioned. IAM roles and users hold access they no longer need. Credentials sit idle but active. And access paths grow harder to trace - especially in fast-moving production environments.
The result?
Standing access everywhere, but no clear way to investigate or fix it without breaking something. And when incidents or audits hit, security teams are stuck reacting - not governing.
This isn’t about negligence. It’s about tooling.
AWS gives you raw materials - roles, policies, credentials, resources - but no real way to understand how they interact, which ones are risky, or what’s safe to remove. Even simple questions like:
…require hours of digging across consoles, spreadsheets, and guesswork.
So teams default to inaction. Or worse, to high-stakes trial and error. That’s why reducing standing access remains one of the most persistent and painful gaps in cloud security.
P0 changes the way security teams govern access. Instead of fragmented IAM reviews and reactive audits, you get a continuously updated, queryable map of every identity, permission, credential, and resource in your AWS environment - and, critically, the relationships between them.
That map is powered by three core elements:
Together, they give you a live understanding of who can access what - and why - across every production environment.
In the video walkthrough, you’ll see how quickly P0 takes you from visibility to remediation.
It starts with a full access graph: a real-time view of roles, users, credentials, policies, and resources - all connected. From there, you can investigate access to any sensitive resource, like an EC2 instance, and instantly see which identities have access and through what chain of permissions.
Next, you’ll explore how P0 flags unused privileged access - permissions that haven’t been used in over 90 days, but still carry high-risk actions like data exfiltration or policy modification. Instead of guessing what’s safe to remove, P0 guides you through it, generating AWS CLI commands to strip unused privileges and replace them with least-privilege alternatives.
This is what it looks like when governance is built into your workflow - not bolted on after the fact.
Standing access isn’t just theoretical. It’s the most common root cause behind modern cloud breaches. Attackers don’t need zero-days when persistent, unmonitored access is sitting in plain sight.
P0 gives security teams a way out of that trap. You move from uncertainty to precision: from guessing who has access, to knowing exactly how access flows - and how to remove what’s unnecessary. What used to be a once-a-year cleanup effort becomes an always-on discipline.
Whether you’re preparing for an audit, locking down production, or advancing toward zero standing privilege, this demo shows how to get there without breaking things or slowing down developers.
If your AWS accounts are cluttered with unused permissions and legacy policies, this walkthrough shows how to find and fix them in minutes with P0. See how to go from overexposed to least privilege - without breaking a thing.
Control and govern privileged access across all identities with P0 Security.
